Out of the Shadows and Into the Light: Rosen Hagood Helps Survivors of Human Trafficking
Along with perfect weather, beautiful architecture, history and quality of life, Charleston is a leader in something darker and much more difficult to spot: human trafficking. According to the 2019 annual report of South Carolina’s Human Trafficking Task Force, there was a significant increase in cases in South Carolina last year. Hitting even closer to …
New Year, New View: Getting Ready for 2020
As 2019 draws to a close, and 2020 enters the picture, the flipping of the page on the calendar is a good reminder that there may be some legal issues that merit your attention in the new year. Those things you may have lacked the time to review in the rush of the day-to-day are …
Attorneys’ Fees and Success in Trust Disputes
One of the inevitable, but regrettable, realities of trust and estate law is disputes. Ideally, these can be resolved by discussion and compromise. When they can’t, they often wind up in court, which means engaging counsel, litigation, and ultimately, legal fees. Who pays those fees? Consider the not-uncommon scenario in which one trustee decides to …
Rosen Hagood Helps Build Leaders
Congratulations to Elizabeth Nicholson, a Rosen Hagood attorney recently selected for membership in the 2020 class of the South Carolina Bar Leadership Academy. The Academy is an elite group of 17 attorneys statewide and in practice for between 3 and 15 years, who will be trained to be the next generation of Bar and community …
Rosen Hagood Buddies Up for Special Olympics
To quote the movie The Big Lebowski, “Dude – let’s go bowling!” On Wednesday, December 4, six Rosen Hagood lawyers and staffers did just that, in the South Carolina Bar Young Lawyers Division’s sixth annual Bowling Buddies fundraiser for the South Carolina Special Olympics. At the event, Special Olympics athletes teamed up with attorneys for …